NEW UNIVERSITIES IN VOYAGE PLATFORM-July 2018

Submitted by mengoni on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 09:36

On Summer 2018 three new Universities was successfully integrated in Voyage Platform that is now composed by a network of 6 Vietnamese Universities: the Hanoi University of Home Affairs, the Halong University and Hanoi Tourism college (the first entering the platfom on June 2018, the other two on July 2018).

Below a brief description of the newcomers:

Hanoi University of Home Affairs.

Founded in 1971 and spending many phases of its development, Hanoi University of Home Affairs (hereinafter HUHA) is a public university, directly under the management of Ministry of Home Affairs. HUHA has main functions of training and offering refresher courses for human resources of high quality at tertiary and post-tertiary level in such fields as State Management, Public Administration, Human Resource Management, and Archives & Records.

In the University Strategic Development Plan towards 2030, HUHA aims to fufill its missions: To offer good opportunities to every student to meet a various learning demand with muti-level and multi-disciplinary training forms; and to provide sufficient human resources for the public sector and for the society as a whole.

Halong University (HALOU) is a public university belonging to the People's Committee of Quang Ninh Province. Ha Long University currently has two campuses: The first campus is located in Uong Bi City and the second one is located in Ha Long City with more than 40 km distance. The school is established by multi-level and multidisciplinary. The school's mission is to provide highly qualified human resources in science, technology, economics, education and human society; Is a center for science research and technology transfer for socio-economic development of Quang Ninh province and the northern plain region. The school not only provides learning opportunities for young people in Quang Ninh but also attracts young people from all over the country for training and jobs. HALOU currently has 5,000 students studying in the fields of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Hotel Management, Restaurant Management and Catering Services, Traveling and Tour Guiding , Information technology, Aquaculture, Natural resources and environment management, English, Chinese, Japanese, Cultural Management, Social Work, Pedagogy and Arts…HALOU has been trying to provide good education programs for learners with the standard of students after graduation must have professional qualification, ability to work in foreign languages, adaptation to new scientific and technological advances and modern working environments with creative capability and high competitiveness, responsibility and international integration.

Formerly known as Tourist Hotel Worker School, Hanoi Tourism College was founded on July 24, 1972 as the first national school to offer training in the tourism industry. The College provides professional training in all areas of hospitality and tourism from entry level positions through to management, as well as conducting research and providing advice in the area of socioeconomic development for the tourism industry. Since its foundation, Hanoi Tourism College has gained a reputation as a leading school in providing training for this industry. The College continues to provide its students with solid industry knowledge, strong professional skills, foreign language skills and pride in Vietnam’s growing tourism industry. Hanoi Tourism College provides students with the opportunity to participate in international competitions including ASEAN and world skills contests. The high results achieved at such competitions demonstrate the professional training provided by the school. Many of the teaching staff have been trained abroad and hold high level qualifications in industry related fields. Thousands of alumina is now demonstrating the knowledge are skills learnt at the College through employment gained at both entry level and management in a variety of tourism industry sectors. This marks the achievements of generation to generation of the teaching staff and students of the College, the driving force for the “HTC” train to continue moving forwards. Currently, HTC is consists of 8 faculties: Hotel and restaurant management, Travel and tour guide management, Food production management, Finance and Accounting for tourism, Foreign languages for tourism, Fundamental education subjects, Industrial core subjects, Information technology for tourism.

The joining of the new universities is an important achievement for the Voyage Project, a sign of interest towards the web platform and a new opportunity for the graduates' insertion in Vietnamese labour market and for the Vietnamese companies to hire qualified graduates in state management, administration and human resources fields, toursim, science research and technology.

The integration of the Universities was technically done by the IT staff of the HANU University, hosting the Voyage Platform in Vietnam.